Question

Why is Hippocrates considered the father of modern medicine?

Answer 1

Hint: He was the founder and leader of the medical school on the Greek island of Kos, where he was born around 460 BC. Although Plato and others regarded him a philosopher, he was the first to distinguish medicine from philosophy and health knowledge from the myths and superstitions prevalent at the time.

Complete answer:
Hippocrates is regarded as the father of modern medicine because of the more than 70 books he wrote. After extensive observation, he characterised several ailments and their treatments in a scientific manner. He was born around 2400 years ago. He was born on the Greek island of Kos and died at the age of 104 on the suburbs of Larissa.
Hippocrates lectured and wrote in the shade of a large plane tree whose descendent is now thought to be 500 years old, the oldest tree in Europe—platanus orientalis Hippocraticus—with a diameter of 15 metres, the oldest tree in Europe. Hippocrates saved Athens from a plague pandemic, and the Athenians praised him for it.
He considered Democritus, the father of the atomic theory, to be his teacher, and when he went to see him as a physician to check on his health, he refused to accept any payment.

 "Make a practise of two things when it comes to diseases: to help or at the very least to do no harm," he said. "Those who are naturally overweight die sooner than those who are thin." "In wounds, there are miasmata that cause sickness if they enter the body." He employed the abstract from a tree containing something he called "salycasia" as a pain reliever, similar to aspirin.
For the first time, he identified epilepsy as a genetic brain disease rather than a sacred disease, as it was thought at the time, and warned, "Do not cut the temporal location, because spasms will recur on the opposite side."

According to Hippocrates, humans ate one or two meals at a time (lunch and dinner). "a little exercise and a walk do not eat to saturation", he added. "Physicians must convert or inject wisdom into medicine, and medicine into wisdom", he added. We would enjoy greater happiness on Earth if all scientists embraced this adage.


Note:-
He performed surgeries on occasion, taught medical physicians, and employed at least 300 herbs, spices, and extracts from plants in his practise, the majority of which were obtained on Greek islands or imported from other countries. He coined the phrase "Let Food Be Your Medicine" to express his belief that bettering one's diet and lifestyle should be a prerequisite fully integrated into therapy.